10,593 stories from A Younger Theatre
Tricycle Young Company is an opportunity for young people to develop their skills as theatre makers working alongside the professionals. Three groups, for 11-14s, 15-18s & 19-25s meet we…
Jess is having a tough time. She's going through a break-up from Leo " perfect, beautiful 'The One' Leo. If it were 2015, she'd remove him from Facebook, delete his number, cry to 'Someone L…
I'm starting to believe that the only comedy shows in existence should be improv comedy. Formed of seven St. Andrews university students, Blind Mirth's comedy improv is hilarious from start …
This is genuinely like nothing I have ever seen. A real mixed bag, Our House is a musical by Tim Firth with songs exclusively by Madness, the most commercially successful band of the 2-To…
Inspired by the real life story of Hieronymite nun Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz, Helen Edmundson's play The Heresy of Love exudes as much wit as it does tragedy. After first being performed …
Ella (Margaret Ann Bain) has lived a double life. She has spent her time posing both as herself and her dead husband Max in order to avoid the Nazi regime in 1930s Germany. Naïve and too …
Election night 2015. The UK is either teetering on the edge of a new era of politics or destined for another five years of Tory leadership. The nation is divided by opinion. Open aims to del…
We've seen a surge in musical theatre over the past few years of shows that tentatively straddle a fine line between genius and extremely offensive " shows such as Book of Mormon spring to m…
Applications are now open for The Old Vic 12, a new scheme that will support 12 emerging artists looking to make the next step in their careers. The scheme will offer The Old Vic 12 an oppor…
Ladylogue contains six short plays all written and performed by women. Each play differs entirely in content but this works well as it is impossible to get bored when everyone fifteen or twe…
It's time someone re-discovered the half-sunken caravan of Hester Swaine, the Traveller woman at the wild heart of Marina Carr's play from 1998. On first look, Monica Frawley's set for the A…
Amongst busy nurses and clumsy drunks, three young people find themselves in late night A&E. Robyn has suffered a dreadful accident and her three friends wait anxiously for news, and …
How long before a woman rubbing grated apple on herself loses its supposed existential meaning and simply becomes a woman playing with a bit of fruit? Awkward Happiness investigates. A pi…
Are you looking for work in the arts industry? Each week we at A Younger Theatre are featuring the best job applications from across the arts spectrum. Whether you're looking for permanent, …
Eliana and Ian meet and, with the staggering obviousness that falls upon only the most unashamed romantic comedies, fall in love after a few obstacles. Bump hangs on the communication betwee…
Visceral in its multimedia effect, Francesca Francesca is an intimate exploration into the life of the elusive Francesca Woodman. The playful use of sheet, film and camera is beautiful, and …
It’s a mismatched band of not-so-merry men " an architect tormented by high expectations, a hopeless romantic tormented by an Italian restaurant memory, a German man tormented by ha…
Nothing says fun quite like wave-particle duality, theories of critical opalescence and thermodynamic fluctuations. Am I right? Albert Einstein thinks so. He's here to prove that physics can…
Bette Midler … and Me is a touching exploration of one woman and her relationship with her idol. Sue Kelvin bounds on stage demanding her audience to laugh, cry, and pay attention. Like sh…
From acclaimed company Theatre Movement Bazaar, Big Shot comes with the tagline, “Not The Godfather.” It is, however, certainly a piece of theatre inspired by this particul…
19 August, 1978. 8:21pm. Abadan, Iran. Nearly 500 people sit down to watch Masoud Kimiai's 1974 film Gavaznha in the Cinema Rex. What follows is one of the most deadly terrorist attack…
The Wyrd Sisters Theatre Company was founded in 2013 with a goal to produce classical works with a twist. They often gender switched main characters aiming to cast the right personality to a…
Only a very specific kind of person wanders the streets of cities in the early hours of the morning: people with nowhere to go or people who have somewhere to go but don't want to be there. …
On 25 April 2015, Nepal was devastated by the strongest earthquake to hit the country in 100 years. Villages were flattened and much of the historical city of Kathmandu crumbled to the gr…
STUFFÂ is the story of Toby and Jess, a couple unable to have children, and their old friend Xav who turns up one evening with a slightly unusual gift " a sperm donation. It delves deep in…